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Selected Readings on American Indian Painting

Archuleta, Margaret and Rennard Strickland
1991 Shared Visions: Native American Painters and Sculptors in the Twentieth Century. New York: The New Press.

Berlo, Janet, ed
1992 The Early Years of Native American Art History: The Politics of Scholarship and Collecting. Seattle: University of Washington Press.

Bernstein, Bruce, and Jackson Rushing
1995 Modern by Tradition: American Indian Painting in the Studio Style. Santa Fe: Museum of New Mexico Press.

Blue Eagle, Acee
1959 Oklahoma Indian Painting - Poetry. Tulsa, OK: Acorn Publishing Company.

Brody, J. J.
1971 Indian Painters and White Patrons. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.

1992 A Bridge Across Cultures: Pueblo Painters in Santa Fe, 1910-1932. Santa Fe: Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian.

Chase, Katherine
1982 Navajo Painting. Plateau, Vol. 54, no. 1. Flagstaff, Museum of Northern Arizona.

Chee, Robert
1975 The Navajo. Tucson, AZ: Mark Bahti.

Dittemore, Diane, ed
2002 Connections Across Generations: The Avery Collection of American Indian Paintings. Tucson:
Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona.

DeHuff, Elizabeth Willis
1922 Taytay's Tales. New York: Harcourt Brace & Co.

Dockstader, Frederick J.
1961 Indian Art in America. Greenwich, CN: New York Graphic Society.

Douglas, Frederic, and René D'Harnoncourt
1941 Indian Art of the United States. New York: Museum of Modern Art.

Dunn, Dorothy
1968 American Indian painting of the Southwest and Plains Areas. Albquerque: University of New Mexico Press.

Gorman, R.C.
1992 The Spirit of my People. Albuquerque: Santa Fe Fine Arts, Inc.

Gritton, Joy L.
2000 The Institute of American Indian Arts: Modernism and U.S. Indian Policy. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press

Hannum, Alberta
1945 Spin a Silver Dollar. New York: Viking Press.
1958 Paint the Wind. New York: Viking Press.

Highwater, Jamake
1976 Song from the Earth: American Indian Painting. Boston: New York Graphic Society.

1980 The Sweet Grass Lives On: Fifty Contemporary North American Indian Artists. New York: Lippincott and Crowell.

Lester, Patrick D.
1995 The Biographical Directory of Native American Painters. Tulsa, OK: SIR Publications.

Ruch, Marcella J. and Pablita Velarde
2001 Painting her People. Santa Fe: New Mexico Magazine.

Rushing, W. Jackson
1995 Native American Art and the New York Avante-Garde. Austin: University of Texas Press.

Seymour, Tryntje Van Ness
1986 When the Rainbow Touches Down. Phoenix: Heard Museum.

Shutes, Jeanne, and Jill Melnick
1996 The Worlds of P'otsúnú: Geronima Cruz Montoya of San Juan Pueblo. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.

Silberman, Arthur
1978 100 Years of Native American Painting. Oklahoma City: The Oklahoma Museum of Art

Snodgrass, Jeanne O.
1968 American Indian Painters: A Biographical Directory. New York: Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation.

Sloan, John, and Oliver LaFarge.
1931 Introduction to American Indian Art. New York: Exposition of Indian Arts.

Tanner, Clara Lee
1973 Southwest Indian Painting: A Changing Art. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.

Wade, Edwin, ed.
1986 The Arts of the North American Indian: Native Traditions in Evolution. New York: Philbrook Art Center and Hudson Hill Press

Williams, Jean Sherrod, ed
1990 American Indian Artists: The Avery Collection and the McNay Permanent Collection. San Antonio, Texas: Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum.

Wyckoff, Lydia, ed
1996 Visions and Voices: Native American painting from the Philbrook Museum of Art. Tulsa, Oklahoma: Philbrook Museum of Art.